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How can a tutor help you master the CogAT?

The Cognitive Abilities Test, or CogAT, is a standardized test that analyzes a student's verbal, quantitative, and nonverbal abilities in order to provide teachers with information about how to best help each student reach his or her full academic potential. Given to students in kindergarten through grade 12, the test asks students a wide variety of questions, many of which are image-based or involve associations and patterns. The questions on the CogAT are not commonly found on other standardized tests. For students in kindergarten through grade 2, much of the exam is image-based, whereas students in grades 3-12 may face questions based on text or images of greater complexity. In addition, enforced time limits are added in for the tests for students in grades 3-12. Unfamiliarity with the CogAT's unique question types and format can result in a student not demonstrating all of his or her abilities on test day, resulting in a deceptive score that is well below the student's potential. If you want to help your student prepare to accurately demonstrate all of his or her abilities when taking the CogAT, personal CogAT tutoring might be just the thing to help you do so.

Varsity Tutors can help you get connected with private CogAT tutors in your area. Superb tutors can help your student prepare for the test in a way that focuses on tailoring instruction to your student's individual strengths and weaknesses, creating a positive learning experience that makes the most effective use of study time. No time will be wasted during your student's tutoring sessions. Their tutor will only focus on the elements of the test that they need to review. Private CogAT tutoring is set apart by the higher level of dedication tutors demonstrate to customizing each student's tutoring experience to focus on just the concepts and problem types he or she needs to review before test day. Whether your student is a kindergartener struggling with image-based analogy questions, or a high schooler who has trouble making sense of complex visual patterns, Varsity Tutors can help you connect with the instructor who is best matched to your student's personal academic experience level.

The educational directors at Varsity Tutors can analyze your student's current skills, concerns, and preferred learning style before helping you select the tutor best suited to working with him or her based on these specific needs. Your tutor can then design a learning plan to help focus your student's CogAT tutoring sessions on helping him or her make sense of the material that they finds most confusing. Students can benefit from the full attention of their instructor in every CogAT tutoring session, as all tutoring takes place in a one-on-one environment. This individualized focus also allows your student to work at whatever pace allows him or her to best understand each concept and question type. Your student will have the opportunity to ask as many questions as they like, ensuring that they understand each element of the test before moving on to the next. Their tutor will work to foster an open, safe learning atmosphere in which your student will feel comfortable expressing themselves and asking a lot of questions. The Varsity Tutors live learning platform allows your student to meet with a private tutor either in person or face-to-face online. This gives them the flexibility to meet with their tutor at the time and location of your choice.

If you would like to learn more about how custom-tailored CogAT tutoring can help your student prepare for his or her exam, or to begin arranging for your student's first tutoring session, contact the education directors at Varsity Tutors today! Scheduling a meeting with a private tutor is the first step you can take toward helping your student overcome their learning obstacles and achieve academic success.

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Recent Tutoring Session Reviews

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"We used a study book of questions and went through the equation building, number series, and quantitative relations. She did well on most and I only had to walk her through a couple of questions that she couldn't figure out. Next session we will review the paper folding and shape series questions."

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"I tested the student on the various sections of the placement exam to figure out his strengths and weaknesses. I was able to conclude that his weakest section is the verbal battery, specifically the verbal analogies subsection. I will come up with extra practice questions for our next session so that he can have additional work between our sessions. I am not concerned at all. He is very bright and learns very quickly."

"The student and I covered practice items in his workbook to expose him to the different types of questions on the test. We also did some specific work with numerical sequences and equation building. The student was focused and eager to learn and no concerns were noted."

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"The student and I worked on a few story problems, and then selected a book about dogs from the library to practice her reading skills. She seems to prefer those things to math analogies. I will work on incorporating more math into future sessions to help her become more comfortable with it."

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"The student and I completed practice questions to prepare for the exam. Specifically, we worked on vocabulary and analogies. I worked with her on test-taking skills (eliminating answer choices, using clue words, looking for parts of speech, suffix/prefix, etc.). She is very bright and eager to learn. She is a joy to work with! "

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"All the concepts that we have worked on in the previous sessions so far, I tried to review all of them. The student is taking the test tomorrow, so I tried to cover all the basic concepts that cover arithmetic, algebra, geometry and probability. Also reviewed some test-taking strategies like the elimination process and using substitution to find the answer."

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"The student and I continued to review all the Reading state assessment tests from previous years. He did well on these tests, and he has been reviewing them at school, too. He does well for the session, and seems to be somewhat confident, although the key will be if he can do more questions than we are reviewing for our session. We are reviewing about 1/2 or less of his actual test."

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"Student did a great job today, completing a lot of work and working through his break that I always give him because he saw that he still had a decent amount to get done. I was very impressed with his maturity. We worked on his homework together, figuring out basic words to fill in the blanks with first then choosing the word closest to the meaning of his original word from his vocabulary word bank. It was smooth-sailing! "

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"Today, we finished going over the study guide questions and reviewed some vocabulary. I focused on finding root words to help him remember these definitions, as memorizing word definitions is not a strong suit of his. I find that talking with him about these definitions really helps him remember.
We also started going through the additional study questions that are based on the passages in the study guide. We made good progress.
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"In today's session we worked through analogies and vocab for the reading section. We reviewed analogies with harder vocab while the student made a list of words she was not familiar with. She has become a lot more confident in finding relationships between words, so that is no longer an issue. We talked about just reviewing the word lists we came up with to prepare for her test on Thursday. "

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"The student and I completed more practice problems for the math portion. She is doing well with deductive reasoning problems. The first problem was difficult but the ones after it came with more ease."

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"Student needs to pass the math proficiency test in two weeks to graduate.
For this first session, we reviewed previous practice tests to identify critical areas to focus on.
Student has practice sheets she gets daily in a class she takes at school.
We focused on probability for this session, as it was her primary concern. I explained basic probability rules and we found a practice book, since we were meeting at the library.
She responded well and quickly started answering probability questions correctly.
I introduced combinations and permutations in preparation for our next session.
She is going to find online practice, and I am going to send her links for practice as well."